Guild Wars 2

Thank you for the info Josh. Is there some kind of announcement in game as well?

hypeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

It says February in your OP but I’m sure you meant March xD.

Congrats to Orange Logo for winning the EU monthly finals! NA finals coming up soon!

How many rangers played this Josh?
Can you explain me why so few rangers ?

There’s a lot of professions and builds not represented.

It’s actually quite embarassing…especially when you see just how dominant turret engies can be on most maps.

Right now there are certain professions that are ok to double up on and some barely to get 1 spot between 2 teams….and it’s been that way for a very long time for rangers and necros.

I’m busy dude.

Darkness.9732:

How many rangers played this Josh?
Can you explain me why so few rangers ?

Because you weren’t good enough to be qualified.

Because nobody plays ranger. I think with a certain comp it could very good, but no top players play power ranger except Eurantien.

Thank you Anet for making it possible to watch 30+ minutes of turret cancer Kappa

SobeSoul.6910:

Thank you Anet for making it possible to watch 30+ minutes of turret cancer Kappa

1 OPN throw away from making it another 30+.

Can’t take 30mins to watch something anet promotes when they cant take the same amount of time to fix imbalances unfortunately.

tichorum.2415:

SobeSoul.6910:

Thank you Anet for making it possible to watch 30+ minutes of turret cancer Kappa

1 OPN throw away from making it another 30+.

Yea, luckily viewership was low because a new player coming to the game and seeing such a low-skill AI build creating such havoc would leave a very poor impression of the game. It would have been hilarious/sad (although maybe actually force them to do something) if turret engies made it to the final of a major ESL tourney, on a game that supposedly takes itself seriously for pvp. In what other game (that was actually successful) are noob strategies approaches able to even keep up, much less seriously threaten, top teams? Sleep soundly tonight knowing that such a team took home real money!

I was actually really happy to see a top team running 2 turret engis. Most people on the forums believe that turret engi is only good for low skill games. Today, all of those people were proved wrong.

Maybe now the ANET balance team will actually do some work and fix it.

Darkness.9732:

How many rangers played this Josh?
Can you explain me why so few rangers ?

Most people find ranger gameplay unrewarding, regardless of strengths/weaknesses..

Basically zerk= not enough mitigation/sustain/disengage

Cele = not enough CC pressure (read: punishing skills). Bleeds not relyable pressure on cele.

Rabid = not enough pressure without heavy cc. Condi pressure alone on any class is inadequate unless the build offers something else (cc, boon hate etc).

Unfortunately if ranger was given any of this in its current state it would be brainless and OP.

It needs a complete overhaul.

Darkness.9732:

How many rangers played this Josh?
Can you explain me why so few rangers ?

I don’t think it’s a build problem, it’s a meta problem. Every thing they do, another build do it best.

The pew pew ranger build is objectively pretty strong. You can see it on Foefire, a pew pew ranger will force the ennemy team to react to it. And the build is not too easily shut down by traditional builds (other than D/D eles), so it actually works. It’s not a build problem.
You don’t see many pew pew rangers (EDIT : in high level team play) because it requires range, open fields and safe high ground to be effective, and many maps don’t offer that. Niflhel for example, does not provide any of this. You never use your range advantage. All points offer many LoS opportunities (fighting on the Cromlech is a nightmare). The mid point has one high ground that takes a long time to get to, and any class with a TP can get to you instantly now (that means Thieves, Mesmers, Eles, Guardians and Necros).

The other ranger builds, while good, are just outclassed by other builds in every thing they do.
Condi survival does well on a point 1v1, but not against DD eles who clear those bleed stacks too easily. It lacks CCs to be effective ans is outclassed by Terrormancers and condi Engies.
Spirit was nerfed too hard and is outclassed by Shoutbows and DD eles on all levels now (more damage, more sustain, better support).
Traps require you to sacrifice most of your defensive abilities and offer no synergy with your other skills. The Trapper rune could help, but it’s unavailable in PvP.
Beastmaster rangers were nerfed into oblivion long ago and have disappeared.

Rangers in a whole suffer for other general problems :
- Bad mobility. No easy access to swiftness out of combat and no teleport of any kind. On a personal level I find this pretty sad considering the ranger archetype.
- Bad traits. Lots of them are underpowered or useless. For example, I have not seen a single build with traits related to pets, and there are a lot of them.
- Bad/average utilities. With the exception of lightning reflexes and the recently buffed Signet of Stone, almost all ranger utilities are bad unless you dedicate lots of traits into them. Let’s not even talk about those shouts.
- Bad/average elites. Rampage as One is just unimpressive for such a cooldown. The Spirit is unreliable due to range/position and CC issues in teamfights. Entangle is good, I admit it, but it has illogical counters (like stealth).

So yeah, ranger is usable, but crippled by many factors. The only playable build atm is power ranger in my opinion, and even then it suffers because of the maps/game type.

And pets are still deaf at the moment doing whatever they want.

also :

- Bad mobility. No easy access to swiftness out of combat and no teleport of any kind. On a personal level I find this pretty sad considering the ranger archetype.

This is not quite right. Sword and greatsword have pretty good movement skill. War Horn grant swiftness/fury/might whenever you want. Signet of the hunt have it’s 25% movement boost. This is by no mean bad mobility.